DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- In Sicily, they say that fish start rotting from the head. In the past few months, as we've gotten closer and closer to the end of President George W. Bush's failed terms in office, we've been witnessing a mind-boggling amount of corruption, greed, evil, and downright stupidity. The smell has become almost overpowering.

From the Wall Street CEOs who take public money but give
themselves $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses and benefits (including
private jets), to Congressional Republicans who are making one last
gasp effort to repeal the New Deal by breaking the auto unions, to
Congress' breathtaking insensitivity in giving itself a pay raise at
the start of what might be another Great Depression, the hits just
keep coming.

You don't know whether to laugh or cry. So welcome to the
first annual "Evil or Stupid Quiz." And good luck. You're going to
need it.

1. Pope Benedict XVI, who recently announced that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior is just as important as saving the rain forest from destruction.

a) evil; b) stupid; c) go back to the Middle Ages where you
came from and leave the 21st Century alone.

2. George W. Bush (this is an easy one):

a) evil; b) stupid; c)both.

3. Dick "I believe waterboarding was an appropriate method to use on terrorism suspects" Cheney: